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"It's easy enough to portray a husband, I'd been in a long relationship at that stage and it's not really that different being married. Erm it's better!

"I think it would be wrong to play him entirely as a monster. That’s one of the reasons that makes Spector compelling and certainly I've found him very alluring from when I first read the scripts five years ago.

"There has to be relateable aspects of him. Aspects of other human beings that they can identity with to an extent.

"It is hard to find any redeeming qualities of Spector. I feel when playing him there are aspects of him that are commendable and I'm saying that cos there are very few.

"But I do think there is an element where he shows traces of being a good father at times. I'm serious!

Particularly in the first series. I do think he shows something close to love particularly to his daughter Olivia."

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"I do think he approached his profession as a bereavement counsellor with professionalism, He provided some good quality level of support to families who were in grief at losing someone. That's the genius of Allan [Cubitt]'s writing. This is someone who is adept at taking life and he is also relatively adept at dealing with losing someone too. They are as close to redeeming qualities.

"Every actor has a method of sorts to an extent and they approach it a different way.

"You don't want to be too method in layman's definition of method which is stay in character all the time."

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"I would never to do that for someone like Spector, I don't think I would have a wife anymore. Especially three series in, four and a half years in, I have ways of locking myself into his psyche quickly without having too much of a build up .

"That's come over time and having an understanding of the character . But very much I can jump out of his skin when I can cos I think it's appropriate.”

* These comments were all made by Jamie at his appearance in a Q&A at London's BFI to launch The Fall series 3 which starts on 29 September at 9pm on BBC Two